Othonna.] CoMPosIT& (Harv.) 333 
mucronate ; pedicels from the uppermost axils, scarcely longer than the 
leaves, simple and one-headed, or forked at base, together imperfectly 
corymbose ; inv. Se. 8, concrete below, acuminate, 3-nerved, scarious- 
edged ; rays thrice as long as the inv., 5-8-nerved ; achenes thinly 
pubescent, 
Has. Zwaanepoelspoortberg, 3-4000 ft., Drege! (Herb. Hk., Sd.) 
A strong, flexuous, branching shrub, with brown bark. Leaves 2-24 in. long, 
1 in. wide, often quite entire. i 
11. 0.? coriifolia (Sond.);~shrubby, erect, glabrous; branches flexu- 
ous, angular, closely leafy; leaves sessile, subdecurrent, obovate, entire, 
rigidly-coriaceous, 3—5-nerved, pale; pedicels from the uppermost axils, 
bibracteate (undeveloped); inv. se. 5-6, oblong, valvate, barbellate at 
tips ; flowers not seen. 
Has. Magalisberg, Burke § Zeyher. Zey.944. (Herb. Hk, Sd.) 
Very rigid in all parts, with pale stems and foliage. Leaves 1-1} in. long, 4-} 
Pe — wavy. Infl. undeveloped, and genus therefore uncertain: it may be a 
Oru § 
§ 2. Surrruticos#. (Sp. 12-14.) 
12, 0. ciliata (Linn. f. Suppl. 388); suffruticose, glabrous, decumbent, 
spreading widely, the fl. branches ascending, ending in long, nude, one- 
headed peduncles ; leaves tapering much at base, oblong, obovate or 
spathulate, either undivided or (more frequently) inciso-pinnatifid, with 
short, broad lobes, all ciliate-toothed, the cilia slender, elongate ; inv. 
sc. about 8, oblong, acute, barbellate at top, concrete at base ; rays 8, 
long, broad, 4—5-nerved ; ray achenes closely silky. Th.! Cap. 721. 
DC tt Rhy 
-Has. Hills and Mt. sides near Capetown, frequent. Stellenbosch, £. d Z.! (Hb. 
Th., D., Sd., Hk.) 
Stems many from the crown, trailing. several feet long. Leaves 14-2 in. long, 
pe! Ene wide, mostly pinnatifid; the marginal cilia copious, 1-2 lines long. Pedune. 
in. long. 
13. 0. frutescens(Linn. Mant. 288); suffruticose, decumbent; branches 
subsimple, leafy; lower leaves obovate, mucronate, tapering much at 
base into a cuneate petiole, margined, quite entire or here and there 
ciliolate, midribbed; upper leaves sessile, oblong or linear, entire or 
toothed, small, passing upwards into scales; pedunc. terminal, 2-3- 
headed, pedicels very long ; inv. sc. about 8, concrete at base, broadly 
oval, acute, barbellate; achenes glabrous. Thunb.! Herb. DC.? Ll. c. 478. 
Has. Cape, Thunbderg! (Herb. Thunb.) 
Neither Eeklon’s nor Drege’s specimens (Hb. Sond.) quoted for this species by DC. 
bear any resemblance to Thunberg’s plant, here described, which seems to me to have 
more of the habit of O. ciliata than of the fleshy species. Z. § Z.’s O. frutescens is 
Doria Kraussii ; Drege’s (in Hb. Hk.) is our O. leptodactyla. 
14, 0. multicaulis (Harv.); rootstock woody ; stems many from the 
crown, suffruticose, diffuse-ascending, laxly leafy, prolonged into simple 
or subsimple peduncles ; leaves sessile, linear or linear-lanceolate, acute, 
entire or sharply few-toothed, coriaceous, thick, veinless and nerveless ; 
‘pedune. terminal, one-headed (sometimes emitting a lateral long pedicel 
